Meaning & use
Pensionado
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A person who receives a pension, or, historically, a student sent abroad to study on a government scholarship.
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As a retired teacher, she now lives as a pensionado in a quiet coastal town.
The Pensionado Act of 1903 sent hundreds of young Filipinos to study in American universities.
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Borrowed from Spanish, the word gained a specific historical meaning in the Philippines, where "pensionados" were government-sponsored scholars sent to the United States in the early 1900s.
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